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Halpern v Canada (AG), [2003] O.J. No. 2268 is a June 10, 2003 decision of the Court of Appeal for Ontario in which the Court found that the common law definition of marriage, which defined marriage as between one man and one woman, violated section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
According to the Preamble, the purpose of the law is "to encourage and strengthen the role of the family; ... to recognize the equal position of spouses as individuals within marriage and to recognize marriage as a form of partnership; ... to provide in law for the orderly and equitable settlement of the affairs of the spouses upon the breakdown of the partnership, and to provide for other ...
The post Living Trust vs. Will in California: Differences and How to Choose appeared. Today’s choices shape the future for children, great-grandchildren and future descendants. For Californians ...
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The provinces have exclusive jurisdiction over the solemnization of marriage under section 92(12) of the Constitution Act, 1867 and jurisdiction over spousal and child support, property division, custody and access, adoption, and child protection as part of the provincial government's jurisdiction over property and civil rights under section 92 ...
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United States trust law is the body of law that regulates the legal instrument for holding wealth known as a trust.. Most of the law regulating the creation and administration of trusts in the United States is now statutory at the state level.
The second challenge was successful, and revised the opposite-sex definition of "spouse" in Ontario's Family Law Act (M. v. H.) so that the right to common-law marriage extended to same-sex couples. They also helped convince Statistics Canada to include same-sex families in the nationwide census, and worked with LEGIT to advance equal ...